Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Possession

Today I am participating in a Possession Celebration Blog Hop hosted by Nichole Giles !First of all, congratulations to the wonderful, generous, talented Elana Johnson on her book birthday for her debut young adult novel POSSESSION! And another congratulations to Elana, because the companion novel to POSSESSION recently sold! What a fabulous June you are having, my dear!

To celebrate, I am supposed to tell about a time I broke the rules. This is hard for me as I am a strict rule follower, law abider. I was a good kid. I'm a good adult. So, I will tell you about the first time I got a speeding ticket. (I've only had a few!)

I was in college and driving my friend Becky home from our summer jobs as Human Resources interns. The sun was shining, we were giggling as always on our way home with the radio blasting. I sang along loudly to the chorus of Queensryche's "Jet City Woman" as it played on THE BLAZE hair band radio station. And then I looked in the rear view mirror at the lights flashing behind me. My heart sank.I looked nervously at Becky and pulled over to the side of the road. I knew I had been speeding. I wasn't paying attention.As the officer approached my car, I hiked up my mini skirt to show some more leg as a last minute attempt to bat my eyelashes out of the ticket. But the tired looking, older gentleman asked for my license and registration anyway. As I waited nervously in the car, he returned with my very first speeding ticket. Crap!I'm pretty sure I cried when I told my mom when I got home. I paid for the ticket myself with my summer job money. But I did the crime, so I paid the fine.

So that is my rule breaking story that my long, tan legs didn't get me out of. Nothing exciting, but definitely a moment I'll always remember!!Were you a troublemaker?? :)

I also want to give another book birthday shout out to Shelley Moore Thomas! Her picture book A Good Knight's Rest is released today, too!! Congrats, Shelley!

Today's Tune for Tuesday is "Breaking the Law" by Judas Priest. I loved when James sang with them on the Idol finale! Also random fact about me: I yell, "Judas Priest" like a curse word! (My grandma used to, too.)

I was a ruler-breaker during Primary School; I think it had something to do with having nuns as teachers. Anyway, I decided I wanted to talk while changing for PE, and Sister What-ever-her-name was caught me. The usual punishment was a ruler over the knuckles. I refused to put my hand out and told her it was child abuse. The next thing I knew, I'm bring literally being dragged to the Headmistress, and when she appeared I kicked her a few times. Needless to say I was suspended for a week and had to be on my best behaviour for the rest of the year!

Sharon - I'm looking forward to reading both of them!!Ellie - Now that's one bad day at school!Samantha- Okay, I may have done that too...Sheri - It was worth a try!Monica - Or he didn't like teenagers. :)

I always hear about people who can talk their way out of tickets. . .the only one I ever got out of is when the father of one of my student's pulled me over (although trust me, I paid a little in shame)!

And why is everyone saying they never break the rules when I had to stop myself at 5?? :)erica

Mel- I should have unbuttoned my blouse too. (kidding!!!)Bish- And now I want to know why you were called to the principal's office that one time!Matthew - I've seen Queensryche in concert a few times. They are pretty good! Cool that a member lives down the street from your dad!Bookrusher- It will be another to check off for your challenge!Lee - I believe you!Shannon - I'm so excited for them!Jo - She is so giving!!Donna - I probably would have told on myself too. I cannot keep things to myself.Tina - I'm not sure whether to believe that or not... I will...E&C- I'm sure I could list a few more - just not big ones!Kelly - Now my family teases me because I dont speed enough!Natalie - It's good fodder for the stories you'll write!

You know it's funny how many people on this hop have written, I'm a rule follower. I even did myself. I guess I could have written about my first ticket (which was my husbands fault, BTW) but instead I wrote about grammar rules, pretty boring, but if you like boring... http://abookagirlajourney.blogspot.com/

Check you out, using your womanly wiles! But isn't that first speeding ticket like a rite of passage? I mean, you can't really call yourself an adult if you've never even (been caught) breaking the speed limit, right?

LOL. I once got pulled over for speading (it was a 138 dollar ticket) so I decided to go to the justic department and contest the ticket. I dressed up real cute and went in there, batting big shining blue eyes and explained that there was 'no way' I was going as fast as they said I was since I was going uphill (?) and my radiator was overheated and I couldn't go over 55 if I wanted to... I guess I must have amused the guy because he came back with 'well, they got you on radar....but we'll just write this off as a warning this once and I suggest you get your speedometer checked as soon as possible'